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^Me too. That and Cowboy Bebop the movie. They're both visually amazing and the animation is just wow. Love Cowboy Bebop the movie more though, since the story (but they had something to work from) and characters are better.

Newtype has confirmed that the series will air in October, on MBS/TBS stations. This could be running on the FMA:B timeslot that Sengoku Basara 2 is taking over this season, but that has not been confirmed yet.

The story and worldview concepts sound a lot like Fafner. It's about students in a school on an island in the southern sea of Japan, set in the far future, robots, time of change for mankind, blahblah. Hope it doesn't suck. The mechs are called Cybuddies btw. At least, that's the closest logical English translation from the katakana...

the mech looks like its based of from a french swordsman
& while the main cast looked something out of Bakuman

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"legends said that Alto Saotome made a correct decision, he left both Ranka Lee & Sheryl Nome to marry the skies & proceed to make love with her, it was a long sight to behold according to the witnesses, the sky is now pregnant"

Original character design artists, Misa Mizuya and Hiroka Mizuya... why the fuck is their art so similar to Takeshi Obata's?! It's no wonder the designs for the show look so Bakuman-ish, if someone told me their stuff was drawn by Obata, I would believe them without second thoughts:

The characters looking similar to Obata designs is not surprising. Misa Mizuya and Hiroka Mizuya are supposed to be twin sisters who do cover illustrations for the magazine Kikan S. The thing is though, all their artwork looks suspiciously similar to Obata artwork. They're either zero talent illustrators who just like ripping Obata off, or they're just a pen name Obata is using for whatever reason. I found all this out while researching them when Star Driver was first announced.

I'm not really surprised by the chara design either, since I was warned Misa and Hiroka Mizuya's art look insanely similar to Obata's. I wonder if it's one of his pen name, or if those twins are somehow related to him (former assistants, family or whatever). If they were just plain old copycats, there would probably be problems. Then again, maybe not, I have no idea how those things work, Obata's art has been ripped off so many times in so many mangas already.